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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1935
Page
4
The article argues that democracies tolerate debate while dictatorships rise from public disillusion with delay. It notes Mussolini and Hitler pursued rapid, sweeping actions to restore order and address complex problems, yet warns that endless quick fixes fail to solve deep economic and political issues.
The text argues that Italy faces a mounting deficit while preparing for war and Germany pursues a Nazi policy increasing trouble, illustrating how dictatorships justify power. It presents democracy as preferable despite waste and inefficiency.
In Peoria Illinois a huge crowd gathers before the Gerald Thompson murder trial with about two thousand people waiting outside the courthouse. Spectators are mainly women as the case promises morbid details and a defense claiming moral insanity and sexual frenzy.
Mussolini asserts Italy will settle both old and new scores with Abyssinia, recalling a past win as the blacks were shut out in the remembered contest.
Commy.it and Opinion note a French hearing where Joan Warner was fined 3.32 dollars for a nude seeming dance. The piece jokes about French tolerance, U S perception, and suggests the publicity boost for Warner and a comparison to Sally Rand's act. It observes Americans visiting Paris for scandal and irony.
The proposed 40 hour work week for postal workers, part of Roosevelt recovery tactics, receives mixed support. Brookings economists doubt it boosts recovery, though the bill has cleared the House and faces Senate opposition led by administration forces.
Washington column by Ray Tucker surveys government economists charts on midsummer conditions in the third year of the New Deal. It notes limited June gains but no normal July drop, with strong farm prices, rising construction payrolls, and boosts from relief payments and rust orders. It highlights Hopkins driven work relief and ongoing recovery signals through August and September.
Boondoggler Hugh Johnson’s watchdogs find little impact from the disappearance of the blue eagle on employment wages or prices. Industry mostly follows code wages and hours with limited chiseling in garment and some services, while plants stay open to meet demand amid ongoing vigilance.
The article notes Adams of Cambridge and Le Verrier of Paris Observatory independently calculated a hidden planet’s position, matching each other within one degree, to explain deviations in gravity seen over years. It also includes various other notes and opinion pieces from the era.
The piece outlines a feud between President Roosevelt and Governor Talmadge over a 19 million dollar Georgia road project and a 280 thousand dollar bridge at Ball's Ferry. It notes Carl Vinson backing the bridge against Talmadge’s resistance, freezing the broader road program and provoking intra party tension.
Puzzle clue solution referencing Kurt Schuschness and a long list of crosswords entries. Notable lines indicate a Broadway star and multiple related terms across themes of theatre and geography with cross-word style references.
Five decades ago Muscatine C R L and P baseball beat Cedar Rapids 5 to 4 at Cedar Rapids. Other notes recall J G Van Lent’s central committee selection at Ottumwa, a Davenport man’s body found in the Mississippi, Bryan’s memory honored nationwide, and Charles J Rosenberger opening a Muscatine law office.
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